Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The focus of change was organisational arrangements , in the sanguine belief that if the framework of the school was altered then the processes of education which it enshrined would also alter to support a strong definition of equality of opportunity . |
| 2 | Information Consulting , while independent , was formed about a year ago by five former Arthur Andersen partners with financial backing from Saatchi and Saatchi , the advertising and consultancy group . |
| 3 | In fact , one of the gardeners was dismissed only a fortnight ago because it was thought he was taking them . |
| 4 | After his second King George , in 1959 , he had developed tendon trouble and was given nearly a year 's rest by trainer Fulke Walwyn , but if anything he was improving with age , and he had gone through the 1961–2 season unbeaten . |
| 5 | This rating was given immediately the subject heard the bleep in the centre of the junction . |
| 6 | Mine seem to vary — I was given both a biography of Nancy Reagan , a quite old hardback of TV critical reviews and articles by Clive James and Muriel Spark 's autobiography ( about her childhood in Edinburgh ) recently and have enjoyed them all in different ways . |
| 7 | I was given only the pau . ’ |
| 8 | There is some evidence of the pope 's personal position on several issues — his reluctance to declare the count of Toulouse excommunicate , his care to see that Simon de Montfort was given only the wardship of the count 's lands , and his snubbing of Archbishop Siegfried of Mainz for his inopportune intervention , three times ordering him to sit down . |
| 9 | This identity of message was recognized down the line , and had the effect that one would have expected . |
| 10 | She was referred again a year later with similar problems . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm now going through what I experienced at Rosyth , except that Eastern Electricity had been privatised three years before I joined whereas the dockyard was contractorised only a month before . ’ |
| 12 | There was that chap that was sacked up the country was n't he ? |
| 13 | Er we used to have the the works magazine that was come out every month . |
| 14 | One case was reported whereby the intervention of the local inspectorate had resulted in one afternoon per week being set aside for INSET . |
| 15 | The fishhouse ( an early dream ) went up in 1977 , and most of my pennies went on the building , so that staging was designed around a 48″ tank size . |
| 16 | Then she remembered her night-gown was torn down the front where Faith Caskie had ripped it . |
| 17 | Or if she was torn then the doctor would come er and stitch her up . |
| 18 | A request was received from a household asking for support to turn down an application for a garage but it was deemed not a function for the Association . |
| 19 | A request was received from a household asking for support to turn down an application for a garage but it was deemed not a function for the Association . |
| 20 | In a number of cases , grain was carried up the canal to the docks , was transhipped , and promptly retraced its steps along the canal to Saul Junction where it passed onto the Stroudwater Canal . |
| 21 | Caesar was the first Roman to allow his own portrait to appear on coins minted at Rome and elsewhere in his lifetime ; his statue was carried on a litter , and set next to statues of the gods . |
| 22 | I managed to have a brief word with the rescued pilot as he was carried on a stretcher into the ambulance . |
| 23 | And for 1,500 miles it was carried on the current without power , navigational gear or a radio transmitter . |
| 24 | 1836 It was moved that the dinner which had been assessed on the public be discontinued and was carried on the casting vote of the Chairman . |
| 25 | The complementary experiment was carried out a decade ago in the laboratory of the influential German school working on the origin of life under Manfred Eigen . |
| 26 | Some of Kelly 's classmates lost the fight to hold back the tears as soon as her coffin was carried down the aisle . |
| 27 | We unlashed the mooring cables almost as the last bag of cement was carried down the gangplank . |
| 28 | Of course when the baths were made there were ladies days and gents days , mixed bathing was considered not the thing in these days , but it did come in in the twenty or the , or the late twenties . |
| 29 | Farafra still enjoyed the strict rites of Arab desert etiquette in which hospitality was considered both a duty and an honour . |
| 30 | I said nothing to her , of course ; she was considered almost a goddess in Berlin , had a huge following . |